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Feel like eating kimchi yesterday then found a simple kimchi recipe online. It called for Chinese cabbage, spring onion, Korean chili powder, kimchi sauce, sea salt, sugar, garlic and ginger. The chili powder is only available in big packet about 450gm give me a good excuse to make more kimchi in the future!

I followed the step suggested online but did not follow the amount of chili powder, salt and sugar. I added an extra heap tablespoon of chili powder as I noticed that the colour is not as red as the kimchi I ate at the Korean restaurant. I also cheated on the kimchi sauce. Since I could not find any kimchi sauce at Asian Supermarket I substituted it with Japanese fish powder to give kimchi some fishy taste. I was thinking to use Thai fish sauce but thought that it might be too salty considering the cabbage had been marinated with salt for 4 hours!

I also made some Kakk Du Gi it tastes a bit too salty now, I am hoping that it will taste better 3 days later. Btw, Kakk Du Gi is similar to kimchi but used radish instead of Chinese cabbage. The ingredients and process are easy but need to set aside the kimchi for few days before I can eat them!

Comments :

Hi Joy, Thank for letting me know about it. The recipe for kimchi called for minced ginger, minced garlic, kimchi sauce (somthing like fish sauce) and sugar. Clean cabbage and chopped if desired, then rub it with salt. Let it marinate in room temp for 3-4 hours. Then, rinse the cabbge and squeeze the liquid out.Add in seasonings and keep for at least a day before serving. All the best!

Hi Lydia, I have a Korean friend who taught me how to make kimchi some time ago. She mentioned about using sea salt and not table salt so that it won't be too salty. You can give it a try the next time you make this :)